Cycling: 'Lance Armstrong may get an easy ride'

DAVID MILLAR fears Lance Armstrong's appearance on Oprah Winfrey's TV show next week will be "completely stage-managed".

PUBLISHED: 10:25, Thu, Jan 10, 2013

Lance Armstrong will break his silence over drug accusations next week

Armstrong, 41, will break his silence over damning accusations of his doping but Millar, a member of the athletes commission for the World Anti-Doping Agency, said the American must come clean in a proper arena.

Millar, who himself served a two-year ban for doping in 2004 since when he has become a campaigner against drugs in sport, said: "Only Lance would get to have his moment of truth, if that's what it will be, in front of Oprah Winfrey. It is not in front of a judge or a disciplinary hearing.

"My biggest concern is it will be completely stage-managed and be all about his emotions rather than concentrating on what he did wrong."

Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after a US Anti-Doping Agency report stated he and his US Postal Service team had run "the most sophisticated and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen".